Re: Exec'ing user space helper programs

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Thomas Sailer wrote:
> 
> Exec'ing a user mode program however is not so straigtforward,
> everytime I look into kmod.c the code gets more complex 8-)
> Up to now I just copied the code from kmod.c into my driver,
> but the code duplication starts to get annoying, furthermore
> a couple of routines (free_uid and flush_signal_handlers)
> are not even exported.
> 
> So I'd like to export the exec-facility of kmod.
> 
> The following is a patch to do this.
> 
> Comments?

Looks good. This is something we'll probably need for other things:
hot-plug devices need to inform user space about [dis-]appearance etc.
Applied.

		Linus